Breakthrough Prize
Breakthrough Prize 2018: Winners
Recipients
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Fundamental Physics
Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page, David N. Spergel
For detailed maps of the early universe that greatly improved our knowledge of the evolution of the cosmos and the fluctuations that seeded the formation of galaxies.
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Life Sciences
Don W. Cleveland
for elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of a type of inherited ALS, including the role of glia in neurodegeneration, and for establishing antisense oligonucleotide therapy in animal models of ALS and Huntington disease.
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Life Sciences
Joanne Chory
for discovering how plants optimize their growth, development, and cellular structure to transform sunlight into chemical energy.
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Life Sciences
Kim Nasmyth
for elucidating the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer.
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Life Sciences
Peter Walter
for elucidating the unfolded protein response, a cellular quality-control system that detects disease-causing unfolded proteins and directs cells to take corrective measures.
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Mathematics
Christopher Hacon, James McKernan
for transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions.